The Great Ninja Generation

Introduction: I started writing this fanfiction because I thought that besides being a fan of Naruto, I wanted to expand the idea and create my own Naruto story. Along with that, I pretend to give people a more vast vision of this great world that is the shinobi world. This is my very first fanfiction, so it'll probably have some grammatical mistakes, but I would appreciate you to politely point them. Thank you and enjoy!

Chapter 1: Back in Konoha

The clouds are just perfect today! Shikamaru smiled as he thought about this.

"That's true!" Chouji was eating his favourite chips.

"Huh?" Shikamaru was confused. "How do you do that? Always?!"

"Do what?"

"You know… that! I am thinking of something and you just read my mind! Is that some kind of jutsu or something?"

Chouji grinned. "We're friends since ever, Shikamaru. I've learned things about you. It's not mind reading, it's witchcraft!" He said ironically.

"Knock it off!" The genius smiled but, suddenly, his face was a lot graver. "You know, Naruto's came back from that thing, the Sasuke's retrieval."

"Yeah. What about it?"

"I heard he's in the hospital. He got seriously injured."

"I got that, too. But since when are you so connected to him?" The Akimichi heir was curious.

"I'm not. Oh, forget it… Injured people are such a drag…"

Chouji decided to let that topic go. "Where's Ino?"

"Asuma said she got some hard cold. She'll be at home for like two or three days…"

/-/-/-/

"2005… 2006… 2007… 2008…" Lee was pushing himself to the limit. Like always. "If… 2009… If I don't make 3000 push-ups, then I'll… 2010… then I'll make 20 rounds running around the village… 2011… no! Not running! 2012… On my thumbs! 2013… 2014…"

"And I'll go with you!" Gai Sensei had arrived. "Because that's the Power of Youth!" His smile shined and he suddenly raised his thumb affirmatively.

"Yes, Gai Sensei!"

Neji heard a scroll unrolling. "I'm ready. Give it all you've got!" All types of weapons abruptly flown from every angle in his direction. "[Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven]" Neji immediately started rotating in high speed and got involved in a chakra shield. All the artilleries were projected in the opposite direction as soon as they got close to the shield. Tenten immediately jumped when she saw her own weapons flying in her way.

They had been training for four hours already and were starting to show signs of exhaustion. "It was a good train." Tenten smiled as she realized that training with Neji was super productive.

"Yes." The most gifted Hyuuga was also enjoying this type of preparation. "Maybe we should get something to eat."

"That's right! Let's go to Ichiraku's!" The tools user was excited about the idea of a hot meal after such an exhausting train. Neji nodded.

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Squad 8 was coming back from an especially boring mission. Shino was silent, as always. Hinata nodded at Kiba's complaints. Akamaru agreed with his owner and best friend.

"I know that the Lady Hokage warned us we wouldn't be having an exciting mission for a while, but taking care of the elders' grass is just too tedious! Com' on! Who does she think we are?! Some genin?"

"A- actually, we are genin, K- Kiba…" Said Hinata reservedly.

"Humm… Yeah, but we didn't get out of the academy just yesterday, right? We're ready for more demanding missions…" He was slowly calming down. "Oh man! All this grass cutting made me hungry! Are you guys up to some ramen at Ichiraku's?"

Both of his partners nodded.

"Ah! Then let's go!"

"Auff!" Akamaru sure was starving, too.

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Naruto was bored as hell! He couldn't stay still knowing that instead of being training hard he was just laying there in that hospital bed doing nothing. He was worried about Sakura. She had visited him sooner on that day and the words she said before leaving were constantly echoing in his head: "I will train so hard you won't recognize me anymore! Next time, I'll do perfectly. I'll save Sasuke!"

At first, he thought this was a good thing: Sakura was dedicating harder to her training and trying to be a better ninja! But then he realized this could be… like Shikamaru would say, "troublesome". So much dedication was great, but the objective she had, besides being the same as his, could and would put her into huge danger. He couldn't let her do it all by herself! He had to save Sasuke as well! But first he would have to get out of that stupid hospital bed!

"I guess the only way to get out of here is to do what the doctor says… This is so boring!"

And this is it! The very first chapter of my very first fanfiction! I hope you will enjoy, follow and favourite it :D Thank you!

P.S.: sorry if there wasn't much action and stuff in this chapter but, as the first one, I think I should do some introduction first. Besides that, I recognize it is a bit short, too, but as soon as the action part starts, I'll try to write bigger chapters.

P.S..: If you're a fan of Shikamaru's, I just created a page for him! Give it a try! Thanks!

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